{"id":177714,"date":"2021-11-25T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=177714"},"modified":"2021-11-25T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:30:08","slug":"first-orthognathic-surgery-performed-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/first-orthognathic-surgery-performed-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"First orthognathic surgery performed in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 24 Nov:<\/strong> For the first time in the medical history of the state, a Bilateral Saggital Split Osteotomy (BSSO) &#8211; a type of jaw surgery -was performed successfully by Oral &amp; Maxillofacial surgeon Dr Kayon Ratan at Assa Nursing Home (ANH) here in East Siang district on 21 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANH Medical Superintendent Dr N Ninu in an official statement, asserted that BSSO is a surgical technique for correcting mandibular deformities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This specific orthodontic surgical procedure was performed for the first time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">in Arunachal Pradesh,&#8221; she said and added that the first patient of the state, who underwent BSSO, was a 31 year old male from Pasighat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Mini Libang (Orthodontist), Dr T Koyu (Anesthetist) and OT staffers played a crucial role in the successful completion of the surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Dr Keyon Ratan had also performed the first maxillofacial trauma surgery and first jaw reconstructive surgery in Arunachal Pradesh in 2013. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 24 Nov: For the first time in the medical history of the state, a Bilateral Saggital Split Osteotomy (BSSO) &#8211; a type of jaw surgery -was performed successfully by Oral &amp; Maxillofacial surgeon Dr Kayon Ratan at Assa Nursing Home (ANH) here in East Siang district on 21 November. ANH Medical Superintendent Dr N [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}